List of Kenyan writers and their works
This list of Kenyan writers and their works includes numerous authors from Kenya and part of their works.
- Abdilatif Abdalla (* 1946)
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Carolyne Abdalla
- Confessions of an AIDS Victim . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1993. Short story.
- Karen Blixen aka Tania Blixen
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Jennifer Bobito
- Prescription: Love . Transafrica, Nairobi 1975. Short story.
- Screens against the sky . Bloomsbury / Penguin, London 1990 (new edition: Penguin, 1992). Novel.
- An immaculate figure . Bloomsbury, London 1993. Novel.
- Rocha Chimera
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Jane Tapsubei Creider
- Two Lines: My Spirit and I . Women's Press, London 1986.
- The Shrunken Dream . Women's Press, Toronto (Canada) 1992.
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Valerie Cuthbert
- The Great Siege of Fort Jesus: An Historical Roman . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1970. Short story.
- Dust and Shadow . Phoenix Publishers, Nairobi 1990. Short story.
- Kuki Gallmann
- Monicah Genya
- Corney Gichuki
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Mary Kize
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Muthoni Likimani
- They Shall Be Chastised . Noni's Publicity, 1974. Novel.
- What Does a Man Want? . 1974. Poetry.
- Passbook Number F.47927: Women and Mau Mau in Kenya . Noni's Publicity, 1985 (reprinted in 2000). Novel.
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Lily Mabura
- The Pretoria Conspiracy . Focus Publications, 2000. Novel.
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Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye
- Murder in Majengo . OUP, Nairobi 1972. Short story.
- Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems . OUP, Nairobi 1977.
- Coming to Birth . Heinemann, Nairobi 1986.
- The present moment . Heinemann, Nairobi 1987.
- Street life . Heinemann, Nairobi 1987. Short story.
- Victoria and Murder in Majengo . Macmillan, London 1993. Short story.
- Homing In . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1994. Short story.
- Chira . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1997. Short story.
- Omondi Mak'Oloo
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Hazel Mugo
- Black Night at Quiloa . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1971. Novel.
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Micere Githae Mugo (* 1942)
- The Trial of Dedan Kimathi . Heinemann, London 1976. Drama. Together with Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
- Daughter of my people, sing! . East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi 1976. Poetry.
- The long illness of ex-chief Kiti . East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi 1976. Play.
- My mother's poem and other songs. Songs and poems . East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1994.
- Meja Mwangi (* 1948)
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Lydiah Mumbi Nguya
- The first seed . East African Literature Bureau, Kampala 1975. Novel.
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Rebecca Njau (* 1930)
- The Scar: a tragedy in one act . Lobp Art Gallery, Moshi 1965. Play .
- Ripples in the pool . Transafrica Publ., Nairobi; Heinemann, London 1975. Novel.
- The Hypocrite . Uzima Press, Nairobi 1977. Short stories.
- Kenya women heroes and their mystical power . With Gideon Mulaki. Risk Publications, Nairobi 1984.
- The Sacred Seed . 2003. Novel.
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Stella Kahaki Njuguna
- Maze . 2000th novel.
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Asenath Bole Odaga
- The Villager's Son .
- Jande's ambition . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1966. Children's book.
- The shade changes .
- A bridge in time .
- Between the years .
- The Angry Flames . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1978.
- The Diamond Ring . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1968. Children's book.
- Thu Tinda! . Uzima, Nairobi 1980. Children's book.
- The Storm . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1985.
- The Secret of the Monkey Rock .
- Why the hyena has a crooked neck and other stories . Women Literature Group, Kisumu 1993. Collection of short stories from “Kenyan grassroots women writers & storytellers” edited by Asenath Bole Odaga.
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Margaret Ogola
- The River and the Source . Focus, Nairobi 1994. Novel.
- I Swear by Apollo . Nairobi 1995; Focus Publications, 2002. Novel.
- Grace Ogot (1930-2015)
- Moyez C. Vassanje
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Jameela Saddiqi
- Feast of the Nine Virgins . Bogle L'Ouverture, UK 2001. Novel.
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Charity Waciuma
- The Golden Feather . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1966.
- Mweru, the Ostrich Girl . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1966.
- Who's Calling? . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
- Merry-making . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
- Daughter of Mumbi . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1974.
- Ngugi wa Mirii (* 1951)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (* 1938)
- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (* 1968)
- Dust . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014
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Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019)
- One day I will write about this place , Minneapolis 2011
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Miriam Were
- The Boy in Between . Oxford University Press, Nairobi 1969.
- The Eighth Wife . East Africa Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
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The High School Gent . Oxford University Press, Nairobi 1972.
- Your heart is my altar . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1980. Novel.